Weapons
Aviation
Medicine
Communications
Technology.
100
This was dropped on the Japanese by the United States.
What is atomic bomb?
100
This was invented by British physicist Robert Watson-Watt and could detect planes within a 40 mile radius.
What is radar?
100
This was used an antibiotic in WWII.
What is penicilin?
100
This allowed planes to communicate with each other and people on the ground.
What is radio?
100
This was created with the same technology as radar and allowed more efficient heating.
What is the microwave?
200
This German rocket was the fist successful one of its kind.
What is the V-2 rocket?
200
This was an accomplishment achieved through faster planes.
What is breaking the sound barrier?
200
This was invented by the Germans as a powder that would prevent infections and kill bacteria.
What is sulfanilamide?
200
These people used their native language as a way of secret communication.
Who are the Navajo people?
200
This was created to meet the lack of actual rubber.
What is synthetic rubber?
300
This soldier would sneak behind enemy lines using a parachute.
What is paratrooper?
300
This was invented in 1939 and allowed planes to fly over 400 miles per hour.
What is the jet engine?
300
This machine was created in 1944 and saved people dying from kidney failure.
What is the kidney dialysis machine?
300
This was done by Nazis to block European communication.
What is radio jamming?
300
This was created using newspaper ink and this allowed for the ink to not clot.
What is the ballpoint pen?
400
These allowed soldiers to fire several hundred rounds per minute.
What is fully automatic weapons?
400
This was created to allow pilots in high flying planes to fly without oxygen masks.
What is pressurized cabins?
400
This was invented to keep insects away in the form of an injection.
What is DDT?
400
These were used to communicate in secret.
What are code words?
400
These were created so soldiers could carry four cans of water or fuel each.
What is the jerrycan?
500
This was done by Americans and could be used to attack a small area of industrial land.
What is direct bombing?
500
These were made more practical but could still not hover or ascend/ descend vertically.
What is helicopters?
500
This machine was used as a painkiller in WWII.
What is morphine?
500
A British computer that could decode messages.
What is a code-breaker?
500
This was first largely used in WWII as a dangerous new source of power.
What is nuclear power?
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